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Billions of people were just asked to spend over a year locked down in isolation, and most did it voluntarily without reverting to tribalistic warfare (threats
by throwawayboise 6y ago
Billions of people were just asked to spend over a year locked down in isolation, and most did it voluntarily without reverting to tribalistic warfare (threats on fringe social media platforms notwithstanding). We've also in modern times seen what happens when famine strikes. Mostly people just suffer quietly and die.
- PicassoCTs 6y agoAh slight economic down-turn sparked a right-wing totalitarian resurgence across the whole world. The lockdown mostly worked, because panem (food) and circensis (movie-streams and gaming) were continuously supplied. But, yes you have a point, the species behaved remarkably well under stress. But then, we also have a lot of social implants now too (cellphone-panopticon) and crowd-sourced anger-management. Also its been half a year, since a angry crowd stampeded into the capitol building of a nuclear power.